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A Beginner’s Guide to Human Rights Jargon
Baffled by technical human rights terms and precise legal definitions? You’re not alone. Here’s a quick glossary of some of the most troublesome words and phrases. Commute: Commute means to replace a…
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USA: It’s Time for Real Criminal Justice Reform
In the past three decades, the prison population in the U.S. has ballooned due to a number of factors that have created a system rife with discrimination and other abuses.…
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Yemen: The Humanitarian Crisis in the Shadows
Despite more than 100 days of heavy fighting, the impoverished country of Yemen is facing a humanitarian crisis that you most likely haven't heard of.
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The Human Rights Reports that could: Analysis of the 2014 Department of State Country Reports
The annual country reports by the State Department are a potentially valuable roadmap to guide U.S. foreign and domestic policy. But what they omit speaks volumes.
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“The America I Believe In”: 3 Hopes for this July 4th
I see this poster every day in the main hallway of our Amnesty International office: it depicts the Statue of Liberty and reads: “The America I believe in leads the…
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Human Rights Victory! Swaziland Prisoners of Conscience Freed!
[caption id="attachment_62446" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Prisoners of conscience Thulani Maseko (above) and Bheki Makhubu walked free from a Swazi prison on June 30, 2015. (c) AP/Press Association Images[/caption] Tuesday, June 30th was a…
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From Albert Woodfox to Kalief Browder: The Devastation of Solitary Confinement
[caption id="attachment_62466" align="aligncenter" width="640"] A cell in the isolation unit in Angola prison in Louisiana. (Credit: Louisiana State Archives)[/caption] The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture has specifically condemned Woodfox’s treatment…
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My First Week of Freedom After 10 Years in a Nigerian Jail
By Moses Akatugba, Nigeria When I called my mother from prison to tell her I’d been pardoned after 10 years in jail, she fainted. I was told they had to…
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What Countries Secretly Share Data with the USA?
Two years after Edward Snowden revealed the extent of mass surveillance, Amnesty International and Privacy International use his evidence to show how countries are secretly sharing your personal data.
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Edward Snowden: “Two Years On, The Difference Is Profound”
By Edward Snowden, director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation and former Central Intelligence Agency officer and National Security Agency contractor TWO years ago today, three journalists and I…